When the second Broadway production of South Pacific arrived in 2008, nearly 60 years after the musical's premiere, it seemed mind-boggling that so timeless a story and score could have disappeared for decades. This is not the case with Bye Bye Birdie, now being staged by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has said that EliteXC headliner Kimbo Slice couldn't even compete with the UFC's entry-level mixed martial artists on Spike TV's reality show, The Ultimate Fighter.

As expected, Sunday night's Tony Awards proved an enchanted evening for homegrown theater. The trophies handed out at Radio City Music Hall reflected an unusually rich season whose highlights included a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of all-American dysfunction, stunning revivals of musical theater classics and a couple of little musicals that could.